FZZT
- Episode aired Nov 5, 2013
- TV-PG
- 43m
Simmons becomes infected with an alien virus after exposing herself to a group of people that have come into contact with a Chitauri helmet.Simmons becomes infected with an alien virus after exposing herself to a group of people that have come into contact with a Chitauri helmet.Simmons becomes infected with an alien virus after exposing herself to a group of people that have come into contact with a Chitauri helmet.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Chitauri helmet prop had to be created from scratch because all the Chitauri soldiers seen in The Avengers (2012) were purely computer-generated.
- GoofsWhen Simmons shows Coulson the "brain cells", they clearly lack axons/dendrites, which are branchings from the cell walls that make neurons easily identifiable. Brain cells normally use these branches to produce tiny electrical impulses. The cells shown look like red blood cells.
- Quotes
Leo Fitz: Here's the new Night-Night pistol.
[Ward tries it out]
Grant Ward: Sorry, Fitz. It's close, but it's just not right.
Leo Fitz: [Quietly] 'Cause agent Coulson had no problems.
Grant Ward: It's an ounce too heavy.
Skye: [Sitting nearby] An ounce? Seriously?
Grant Ward: It's the difference between success and failure. When you're on a rooftop with a 15-mile-an-hour wind, Your target is 500 yards away...
Leo Fitz: Yeah, but we do have a rifle.
Grant Ward: [Looks at Fitz] Lose the ounce.
[Leaves]
Leo Fitz: Yeah, okay. On it. "Lose the ounce".
[Imitating Ward]
Leo Fitz: I'm Agent Grant Ward, and I can shoot the legs off a flea from 500 yards, as long as it's not windy.
[Skye laughs]
Jemma Simmons: [Jemma Enters the Lab] So, Ward was here? Let me guess the night-night pistol again?
Leo Fitz: Yeah, and he said it was off by an ounce.
Jemma Simmons: Of course he did.
[Also imitating Ward]
Jemma Simmons: I'm Agent Grant Ward, and I could rupture your spleen with my left pinky... blindfolded!
- ConnectionsReferences The Big Lebowski (1998)
- SoundtracksAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Theme Song
(uncredited)
Written by Bear McCreary
When we first see the Helmet, and "Tony" (Vincent Laresca) apparently handling it, it's Macguffin City. That got me, I thought this was gonna be a new creep. In fact, Coulson's scene with this dude was rather heartbreaking.
So we think, oh no, new Bad Guy, found one of Loki's Dirty Socks in NYC now he's Wreakin' Havoc with it from a Firehouse in Wrigley, PA.
But it is none of these things we regularly see in comic books or have seen in this series: It's ain't an Alien, well, it is an alien, but not an alien dude. It's not a robot, or a Life Model Decoy, or Mystique pretending to be Liz Henstridge just so we can see great blue nude skin shots. It's not Red Skull sycophants or Extremist Extremis Jerkies.
So what was it, causing people's brains to explode and then make them float in the air? Was it an Osmium Bullet like from Fringe? In fact it was something so normal we forget to think about it, which makes it more interesting.
What made X-Files and Fringe great - And even CSI for that matter, was the investigative process, or the "Procedural" episode. Which this was the first official "Agents of S H I E L D" Procedural Ep. No Mythos, except for mention of Chitauri... And maybe once Coulson says, "But don't call me Iron Man".
This focuses on The Fitz-Twins, and Jemma steeling herself to do something, not what Coulson wanted: so of course she has to be browbeaten by Coulson. Was Coulson a bit more harder edged in this?
Harder Edged, and harder Head. It takes May to soften him up a bit, and this is also a standout scene. "You FEEL Different, because you ARE Different".
Enter S H I E L D Pencil-Beancounting person, Agent Blake (Titus Welliver) who was a great Slimeball in Star Trek: Voyager Equinox parts I and II, he threatens Coulson and runs his finger on "Lola".
Again, no Rating system this week, 10/10, they are all 10/10
- XweAponX
- Nov 5, 2013